With the Portland Trail Blazers season wrapped, we evaluate the roster player-by-player, giving the fans the power of who should stay and who should go.

Robin Lopez

Position: C Height/Weight: 7-0/265 NBA experience: Six seasons 2013-14 salary: $5,904,261 Contract status: Entering the final season of a three-year deal signed in 2012, Lopez is set to make $6.1 million in 2014-15.

2013-14 season notables: Led the team in rebounding 26 times and recorded double-digit rebounds 33 times. ... Grabbed a career-best 18 rebounds against Utah on Feb. 21, adding 12 points on 5 for 8 shooting and in the same game, set another career high with 12 defensive rebounds. ... Scored a team high 18 points on March 1 vs. Denver. ... Recorded a career high seven blocks on Feb. 25 at Denver. ... Grabbed 18 rebounds, 12 on the defensive glass, on Feb. 21 against Utah. ... Had 17 points and 14 rebounds on Feb. 11 against Oklahoma City. ... Recorded 16th double-double of the season on Jan. 21, more than the rest of his career combined (15). ... Grabbed a team-high 15 rebounds on Dec. 21 against the L.A. Clippers. ... Totaled 14 points and 14 rebounds, including a career-high tying eight offensive rebounds against Dallas on Dec. 7. ... Grabbed a career-high 16 rebounds against Chicago on Nov. 22 ... Recorded three straight double-doubles from Nov. 9-13.

When Trail Blazers general manager traded for center Robin Lopez last July, it was Portland's biggest offseason acquisition in years – in the most literal sense.

The 7-foot-1 Lopez was the physical, defensive-minded center All-Star power forward LaMarcus Aldridge had long desired to play alongside. It would result in career years for both members of the Blazers' starting frontline.

"I think he's going to give me single coverage because now the biggest guy can't guard me anymore," Aldridge, who posted career highs in points and rebounds, said before the season. "Now they gotta guard him. I think my life should be easier."

Lopez came to Portland off the best season of his five-year career, starting all 82 games for New Orleans and averaging career-highs in points (11.3), rebounds (5.6), blocks (1.6), free throw attempts (242), percentage (81.8) and minutes (26.0). But the best was yet to come for the former Stanford product, whose grit and personality quickly proved a perfect fit in his new city and an important part of the chemistry on his new team.

He added a toughness in the middle and edge defensively the Blazers lacked a season ago with the undersized JJ Hickson filling in at center. With Lopez playing rim protector, opponents converted just 42.5 percent of their attempts at the goal – ranking second behind only Indiana's Roy Hibbert (minimum 50 games played, defending at least six attempts per game at the rim), according to NBA.com/stats player tracking. He finished eighth in the NBA and fifth among centers in blocks per game at 1.7, setting a new career-high with 139 in the regular season.

Lopez, who looked like a candidate for Most Improved Player throughout the season, hit career marks for rebounds (700), assists (73) and minutes (2603), and finished seventh in the NBA in field goal percentage (55.1). His 30 double-doubles this year (29 in the regular season) doubled the number he complied over the first five years of his career.

Among the individual accomplishments, Lopez also set the Blazers individual season record for offensive rebounds with 326 (third in the NBA this year) and became the first NBA player to record 300-plus offensive rebounds (4.0 per game) and 130-plus blocks in a season since Dwight Howard in 2010-11.

In 11 playoff games, Lopez posted averages of 10.0 points, 9.1 rebounds and 1.82 blocks in 33.4 minutes, while trying to slow Howard, an All-NBA center, in the first round.